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"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we
imagine."
Francois, Duc De La Rochefocaulds
"Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones
at another."
George Herbert
"A man can stand almost anything except a
succession of ordinary days."
Goethe
"True happiness consists not in the mulitude
of friends, but in the worth and choice."
Ben Johnson
" A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper
time for supper, and he made answer, 'If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you
can.'"
Diogenes
" Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert
" The world is a comedy to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel."
Horace Walpole
" Where law ends, tyranny begins."
William Pitt
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds
of those who possess it."
William Pitt
"Little strokes fell great oaks."
Benjamin Franklin
"When asked what he would take to let a man
give him a blow on the head, he said 'A helmet.'"
Diogenes
"Common sense is not so common."
Voltaire
"When the candles are out, all women are fair."
Plutarch
"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth
doing well."
Phillip Dormer Stanhope
"I hate the man who builds his name on ruins
of another's fame."
John Gay
"Procastination is the theif of time."
Edward Young
"There is no disguise which can for long conceal
love where it exists or stimulate it where it does not."
Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
"Where the lion's skin will not reach, you
must patch it out with the fox's."
Plutarch
"One must eat to live, not live to eat."
Jean Baptiste Moliere
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody
talks about and few have seen."
Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
"I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies,
but am otherwise very well."
Sydney Smith
"We know nothing of tomorrow; our business
is to be good and happy today."
Sydney Smith
"There is nothing so powerful as the truth
and often nothing so strange."
Daniel Webster
"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that
grows keener with constant use."
Washington Irving
"One can acquire everything in solitude -
except character."
Henri Beyle (Stendahl)
"What's drinking? A mere pause for thinking!"
George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron
"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from
the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Every man takes the limits of his own field
of vision for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator
of mankind than as one of the species."
Joseph Addison
"Our disputants put me in the mind of the
skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him, till he becomes invisible."
Joseph Addison
"Such and so various are the tastes of men."
Mark Akenside
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